Housing is a basic human right. We Build Like It.
CoPrint Housing exists for one reason: to ensure every person has a place to call home. We believe adequate housing is a basic human right — and we’ve built our entire model around making that right reachable, starting with the communities that need it most.
The Crisis
The United States is short roughly 7.3 million affordable homes. Michigan accounts for close to 190,000 of them, and Metro Detroit — where we begin — for nearly 20,000. Globally, almost two billion people lack access to adequate housing.
Behind those numbers are families. Roughly 70% of low-income households are severely cost-burdened, spending more than half of what they earn just to keep a roof overhead. For many, the only “affordable” option is a mobile or manufactured home — a short-term fix that depreciates like a vehicle and can lose half its value within a decade, deepening a family’s financial setback rather than relieving it.
What’s Not Working
Most efforts to solve it work on the demand side — subsidies, vouchers, budget allocations. Those matter, but they don’t touch the root of the problem: it has simply become too expensive to build affordable housing. With material costs up sharply in recent years and a deepening shortage of skilled labor, the homes that would serve low-income families are increasingly the homes no one can afford to build. Subsidizing demand for a supply that isn’t being created can’t close the gap.
A Different Kind of Solution
Our approach attacks the cost of construction itself. By 3D-printing homes in concrete, we cut the cost of building affordable housing to roughly half that of traditional framing — faster, with less labor, and with less waste.
That single change has a multiplier effect. When affordable housing becomes profitable to build, more builders and developers enter the market, and supply grows. We aren’t only building homes; we’re working to make the entire category of affordable housing worth building again. We measure our success not just in the homes we print, but in the market we help unlock.
The Families Behind The Work
In our first year alone, we aim to complete 30 affordable homes — housing for roughly 60 families. And each home is built to stay genuinely affordable, not just at move-in but over time. Printed concrete needs far less maintenance than conventional construction, and our use of lighter, higher-albedo concrete reflects heat and reduces cooling demand — lowering the utility bills that quietly erode a family’s stability. A home that costs less to build and less to live in is a home that keeps its promise.
Building Greener
3D-printed concrete construction can cut a build’s carbon footprint dramatically — by as much as 90%, through reduced material transport and the properties of concrete itself — while lowering the volatile-compound emissions tied to conventional building materials. Less waste, fewer truckloads, and more energy-efficient homes make every project lighter on the environment as well as the budget.
Beyond the Build
A new way of building creates new ways to work. As 3D-printed construction grows, so does demand for the technical and trade roles that support it — and we intend to open that door rather than close one. We plan to develop and share learning materials on the technology, helping the existing construction workforce carry their skills into a printed future.
Staying Accountable
Affordability is a claim that has to be earned, not assumed. We assess each project against its local market to confirm that what we build genuinely reaches the families it’s meant for, and we gather feedback from the communities we work in. Impact that isn’t measured is just intention.
The Future We’re Building Towards
We envision a world in which every family — in Detroit, across Michigan, and ultimately around the globe — has access to the home that adequate shelter should guarantee. Every printed wall is a step toward it.
CoPrint Housing. Printing a better future.
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